Curious! Looking at just this shot, is one Abe-l to tell that it's not a Lincoln?

A student of American automotive history might.
But I Cain't.

A Scotsman might say you cannae dee it...or should that be Kennedy it? I forget.

The Continental Mark II was envisioned as a revival of the Grand Classic concept ala the Packards, Pierce-Arrows and Duesenbergs of the 1930s. It was largely hand-built, and even at $10,000 each, the Ford Motor Company still lost money on every one they sold.

Howard Hughes, Elizabeth Taylor, Bob Hope and Elvis Presley owned Mark IIs. It was a car for the stars.

And no...it's not a Lincoln. The Imperial had a similar identity crisis for the same reason; people still called it a "Chrysler Imperial". Breaking the Continental and Imperial names away from their parent divisions didn't seem to fly with the car-minded public.

I recall seeing a list of celebrities who owned a Mark II, though without your prompt, I couldn't have named any off the top of my head. I know that Sinatra sang a song about one. I also didn't know about the Imperial's "identity crisis". Thanks for sharing that tidbit of information. And while I am at it, thank you so much for the fave.

now that's interesting... Gloria and I watch a lot of Perry Mason, and I always see him driving a Lincoln, which tickles me because I learned to drive in a 1964 Lincoln town car - I have no idea the designation. My father always love the looks of a Mk IV, though he never owned one.

V.

Packard brought out a car called the Clipper in the mid-50s. It looked like a Packard but "officially" it wasn't one.

Interesting. I've never heard of it.
Wikipedia is your friend: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packard_Clipper

Out in Honolulu in the late 50s there was a Basque restaurateur and night club owner named Alphonse Batz. He had a chocolate brown Mk. II. The joke around town was that he wanted to open a place called the Belfry, so that he would be known as "Batz in the Belfry".

I always love a good play on words, especially when somebody has enough of a sense of humor to turn it on themselves.